Jeannine Ross-Armstrong was finally settled — running the family business, newly wed and pursuing simple passions that exploited the natural beauty of her hometown of Thunder Bay.

The Star can now share her identity after a publication ban was lifted in Superior Court of Justice Friday morning.

Described as pleasant, positive and, most of all, well loved, Ross-Armstrong was said to be a joy to parents Timothy and Kathy and husband Robin Armstrong.

She died early on Feb. 2 at a Richmond Hill condominium far from home as a result of blunt force trauma, police said Friday.

She was 38.

Though few other details can be released under a court-ordered publication ban, Jonathon Ross, 36, was arrested that night and charged with second-degree murder. Police confirmed he is Ross-Armstrong’s brother.

Cousin Helen Ross said Ross-Armstrong had gone to collect her brother who owns a condo unit in the Yonge St. building near Corpus Christi CES where he is a Grade 5 teacher.

“She had gone down there to bring him home for a rest. That’s all we know,” Ross said. “She’s going to be really missed.”

In recent years, Ross-Armstrong had taken over management of the family business, L.C.R. Estates, a garden centre and landscaping business on a rural swath of land just west of Thunder Bay’s city centre.

Helen Ross remembered Ross-Armstrong’s uplifting spirit was always on display, at work and elsewhere.

“She was a happy person. She wasn’t a downer, she’d make everybody feel welcome,” Ross said. “She’s from a big family and she’s well loved.”

Working with her father after university, Ross-Armstrong soon helmed the more than four-decade-old business that also sells fresh-cut Christmas trees.

At 25, she set off for adventure — a year-end trip to New Zealand with a girlfriend — where in the lakeside tourist town of Taupo she met a dashing local telecommunications technician named Kevin Lee.

Lee, 10 years her senior, was the kind of guy “every girl would fall for,” said friend Jay Bennett when reached in New Zealand.

“Jeannine was such a lovely girl that she won Kevin’s heart, really,” he said.

After she returned to Canada, the fast bond the couple made refused to die.

Ross-Armstrong made plans to return to New Zealand in March 2000 to, as Bennett explained, “give it a crack with living together.”

But tragedy would strike before they ever got that chance.

As Ross-Armstrong took off from Canada, Lee also took flight that fateful Tuesday morning.

According to multiple media reports from New Zealand, Lee, his older brother Gregory, pilot David Logan and police officer Glenn Phillips set off on a routine helicopter flight to check communications transmitters when their craft slammed into Mt. Karioi. All four were killed on impact.

That afternoon, Ross-Armstrong waited expectantly for Lee at the Auckland airport for two hours, the Waikato Times wrote, only to receive the unthinkable news. She stayed for the funeral and returned home.

“She was devastated,” Bennett said, adding that Lee’s family often kept in touch, sending Ross-Armstrong a Christmas package every year.

On Tuesday, they sent a message of condolence.

“You came into our lives for just a short time when we shared a mutual tragedy and now you have gone,” the message reads. “Jeannine was just wonderful and it’s so hard to comprehend this has happened. Goodbye angel love you and missing you in New Zealand.”

Even after taking a risk and losing so much, Ross never gave up on love.

This past Christmas, she married long-time boyfriend Robin Armstrong in a small ceremony.

The two made stone garden sculptures in their studio on the family estate, which they sold at local craft shows and at the garden centre.

“People love them, especially tourists,” Ross told the local online news site TBnewswatch.com in 2011. “They’re unique to Thunder Bay. The garden art is really popular because the trend is going back to natural products. That’s what people want. No two are exactly alike.”

A profile on a local artisans’ website said the couple found inspiration for the bird, flower and turtle creations “in the natural beauty that they see everyday in Thunder Bay and surrounding landscapes.”

Jonathon Ross appeared in Newmarket court by video from jail in Lindsay, Ont., on Thursday. He remains in custody.